Easter Part Two

Sorry I didn't post the rest of the Easter pictures sooner. I went on vacation and then after I got back we got a new puppy so my life has been crazy! Here are the rest of the Easter pictures. We had Easter dinner with our Aunt and Uncle and let the kids eat all their candy!

Easter Part One

We celebrated Easter with friends and family this year. The morning was just us and it started with finding out what the Easter Bunny brought!

Layla was only interested in the eggs "hidden" around the house.

She ate all the chocolate in each egg as she found them.

Jourdan searched high and low for all of his Easter eggs. After he found them all, he lined up his eggs and only then did he start opening them. He opened all the eggs before he even ate a piece of chocolate! Once he had eaten some chocolate he wanted to go outside and try out his present. A T-ball set. He was so excited.

After the kids played with their toys and ate their treats we went to the neighbors house for breakfast and an Easter Egg hunt. It was surprisingly hot but that didn't stop the kids, red cheeks and all.

The egg hunt was color-coded. We thought this might be a little hard for Layla but soon enough she was going after all her purple eggs. The kids had a great time. Thank you Gail and Dawn! We have great neighbors.

After the hunt we walked down to the river.


I guess Layla got tired walking back because she decided she would rather hang then walk. Although she isn't hanging in this picture, she kept jumping up.


We went home to hydrate (Eaan that one is for you) and take a nap before we headed over to our Aunt and Uncle's house for dinner. But first, bubbles!

Christmas at the Wessel's

I am finally blogging again. Christmas time was crazy busy and we drove my little brother up to college in Boston. We are finally getting back into a schedule and getting cleaned up after the holidays. So now I can get caught up on posting blogs. Right before our big snowstorm in December we went to a friend's house for a Christmas party. Santa even made an appearance!

Her hair is finally long enough for pigtails!

Up next...the snowstorm!

Christmas Tree Lights

Jourdan's idea of putting lights on the Christmas tree. All in the same spot!

Thanksgiving

It's snowing like crazy here and I have some good pictures to post but I haven't gotten them together yet. So I am going to post my Thanksgiving pictures for now. We had our first Thanksgiving in our new house. It was wonderful. We had Mommy, Jeff, Tommy and Anna over for dinner. The little ones were so excited when they got to our house.

Next up, FOOTBALL!

Anna Banana

Layla and Lena

We lost Lena about a week ago. Keep your fingers crossed that she comes home soon!

Layla sneaking food before dinner.

Layla enjoyed the toast.

After she finished eating she finished off Jourdan's food. Her belly makes a nice shelf.

Sitting with Papa and rubbing her full belly after dinner.

Tommy and Jourdan enjoying some toons.

The family minus one.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Halloween

Finally I am posting the Halloween pictures. I had to get ya'll in the mood with pumpkin hunting and fall pictures first. We started off October 31st like any other day but I knew something was different when I saw this driving down the road:

I think he just needs a hug. At the house Jourdan and Layla actually let me take some pictures of them. I know I posted this one already but it's my favorite right now.

This one makes me laugh. Layla is pretending she has a lollipop like Jourdan.

Halloween was a busy day for us. We went to a friend's birthday party in the morning, Anna's cheer game in the afternoon, then carved pumpkins with Anna when we got home and changed into our costumes for trick-or-treating.

We had a pirate,

a bumblebee

and a vampire. (I have someone to love Twilight with)

We brought the wagon along for easy transportation of children and beer.

Layla was all about the candy. Do you like her new bangs!?! Her hair is always in her face so we decided to just cut it. As you can see it's still in her face but a lot better than before. (We didn't miss any pieces. The hair is supposed to be behind her bangs. See what I mean about her hair always being in her face?)

I think she could pass for a real vampire.

My mom was...well, she had horns and a cape so you decide. Eaan was a beer drinker and Tommy had green on. :)

Hummm....

Jourdan was so excited this year. He loved saying trick-or-treat and getting candy. I had a great time taking them around and we were really lucky because the rain stopped for a couple of hours so we could go trick-or-treating. It had been raining off and on all day. Then when it was time to go out the clouds cleared and the moon came out. Right as we were finishing it started to pour!

That was ok because everyone was tired and ready to go in and check out their loot. (I was a bumblebee too, in case you were wondering.) That's when things started getting rowdy.

We had an impromptu Halloween party for adults after trick-or-treating with some family and friends. If you look closely you will notice that, yes, that is Eaan's underwear by his shoulder blades and yes, that is my mom pulling them up. I told you we get rowdy sometimes. You should have seen Tommy and Corey wrestle.

Happy Halloween!!!